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  <h1>Sphere Browser</h1>
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Sphere Browser is a privacy-focused web Browser made by Tenebris.
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  <h2>Spyware Level: <font color=greenyellow>Possible Spyware</font></h2>
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This program was tested with MITMproxy on Linux. Sphere Browser itself does not contain any telemetry and really has removed all of
the spyware from the chromium codebase that it is based on. However, it has two red flags- the default homepage has analytics, and you have to run
analytics on your browser to download it. The software is fine. Just the settings and the way you have to
download it and the lack of source code hold it back from the title of "Not Spyware". You can easily configure it to not connect to the default homepage, at least.
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  <h3>Tracking pixel on the default homepage</h3>
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  Sphere Browser is based around an "identities" feature that lets you change how your browser appears to the rest of
the internet in a rather easy way- and then it by default loads the site <code>f.vision</code> which can identify your new identity in a pretty
centeralized way, and even includes a tracking pixel from the getclicky analytics service. If you want to use this browser, you really
should not be using this default homepage. It contrasts with the privacy features of the browser rather poorly.
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  <img src="../images/sphere_tracking.png" alt="getclicky tracking pixel on the sphere browser default homepage">
  <h3>JavaScript from an Analytics company on the download site</h3>
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Another problem is, you need to load JavaScript to download the browser itself at sphere.tenebris.cc/, which tries to load JS code from Tenebris
as well as JavaScript from the same analytics company that has the tracking pixel on <code>f.vision</code>. Why are these analytics here if the browser
is so focused on privacy?
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  <img src="../images/sphere_homepage.png" alt="getclicky tracking JS on the sphere browser download page">


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  This article was last edited on 12/12/2018
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thy first commit 2020-02-07 09:12:15 +02:00			`<!DOCTYPE HTML>`
			`<html lang=”en-us”>`
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fixed file paths, added notice 2020-02-08 10:09:18 +02:00			`<link rel="stylesheet" href="../style.css">`
thy first commit 2020-02-07 09:12:15 +02:00			`<meta charset="UTF-8">`
			`<title>Spyware Watchdog</title>`
			`</head>`
			`<body>`
			`<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">`
			`<h1>Sphere Browser</h1>`
fixed file paths, added notice 2020-02-08 10:09:18 +02:00			`<p><a href="../articles/index.html">Back to catalog</a></p>`
fixed images mess up 2020-02-08 10:32:22 +02:00			`<img src="../images/sphere_logo.png" alt="sphere browser logo">`
thy first commit 2020-02-07 09:12:15 +02:00			`<p>`
			`Sphere Browser is a privacy-focused web Browser made by Tenebris.`
			`</p>`
			`<h2>Spyware Level: <font color=greenyellow>Possible Spyware</font></h2>`
			`<p>`
fixed file paths, added notice 2020-02-08 10:09:18 +02:00			`This program was tested with MITMproxy on Linux. Sphere Browser itself does not contain any telemetry and really has removed all of`
			`the spyware from the chromium codebase that it is based on. However, it has two red flags- the default homepage has analytics, and you have to run`
			`analytics on your browser to download it. The software is fine. Just the settings and the way you have to`
			`download it and the lack of source code hold it back from the title of "Not Spyware". You can easily configure it to not connect to the default homepage, at least.`
thy first commit 2020-02-07 09:12:15 +02:00			`</p>`
			`<h3>Tracking pixel on the default homepage</h3>`
			`<p>`
			`Sphere Browser is based around an "identities" feature that lets you change how your browser appears to the rest of`
fixed file paths, added notice 2020-02-08 10:09:18 +02:00			`the internet in a rather easy way- and then it by default loads the site <code>f.vision</code> which can identify your new identity in a pretty`
			`centeralized way, and even includes a tracking pixel from the getclicky analytics service. If you want to use this browser, you really`
thy first commit 2020-02-07 09:12:15 +02:00			`should not be using this default homepage. It contrasts with the privacy features of the browser rather poorly.`
			`</p>`
fixed images mess up 2020-02-08 10:32:22 +02:00			`<img src="../images/sphere_tracking.png" alt="getclicky tracking pixel on the sphere browser default homepage">`
thy first commit 2020-02-07 09:12:15 +02:00			`<h3>JavaScript from an Analytics company on the download site</h3>`
			`<p>`
			`Another problem is, you need to load JavaScript to download the browser itself at sphere.tenebris.cc/, which tries to load JS code from Tenebris`
			`as well as JavaScript from the same analytics company that has the tracking pixel on <code>f.vision</code>. Why are these analytics here if the browser`
fixed file paths, added notice 2020-02-08 10:09:18 +02:00			`is so focused on privacy?`
thy first commit 2020-02-07 09:12:15 +02:00			`</p>`
fixed images mess up 2020-02-08 10:32:22 +02:00			`<img src="../images/sphere_homepage.png" alt="getclicky tracking JS on the sphere browser download page">`
fixed file paths, added notice 2020-02-08 10:09:18 +02:00

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			`<p><b>`
			`This article was last edited on 12/12/2018`
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surf article & new themeing plus XHTML 3 2020-03-22 05:33:06 +02:00			`If you want to edit this article, or contribute your own article(s), contact us on XMPP over in spyware@conference.nuegia.net, or visit us at the git repo on <a href="https://codeberg.org/TheShadow/SpywareWatchdog">Codeberg</a>. All contributions must be licensed under the CC0 liscence to be accepted.`
thy first commit 2020-02-07 09:12:15 +02:00			`</p>`
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